Frank Warmerdam wrote:
""Real artists ship. For everyone else, there is wanking."
For the record, while I acknowledge a kernel of truth in this, I find the
statement so elitist and dismissive of the varied efforts that it
takes to
make things work that I cringe every time I hear it.
Discussion, conferences, standards, coordination, etc all play an
important
role in making a software ecosystem useful. If there is a lesson, it
may be
that these other things shouldn't become so all consuming that they
prevent
actually producing useful software.
Well said!
And let me add: lab directors (academic and commercial), proposal
writers, IT managers who recognize the value of open-sourcing internally
generated code, research funding agencies (DARPA and NSF program
managers!) - i.e., those who find ways to pay people's salaries to write
code - are an important part of the ecosystem.
--
Miles R. Fidelman, Director of Government Programs
Traverse Technologies
145 Tremont Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617-395-8254
www.traversetechnologies.com
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